Talks are in-person-only, from 2-3 pm in Ricketson Auditorium (not the VIP Room)
Ricketson Auditorium is on the 1st floor near the West Atrium. Museum admission not required to attend. Enter through Staff/Volunteer entrance, 50' east of main visitor entrance, and let Security know you're attending the talk, they will direct you to walk through the Space Odyssey exhibit until you see the park and then turn right toward Ricketson Auditorium.Jan 22nd : Testing evolutionary theories of predator-prey interactions in deep time. (Lydia Tackett, U. of Missouri)
Jan 30th : How to take over the world: Climate change, development, and the origin of major vertebrate groups. (Chris Griffin, Yale)
Mar 7th , 2 pm*: Tales told by trilobites. (Thomas Hegna, SUNY Fredonia) *(doubleheader!)
Mar 7th , 3 pm*: The largest organisms on the Morrison Formation floodplain…and the sauropods that ate them. (John Foster, Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum) *(doubleheader!)
Mar 14th : Our Earth was completely frozen? Twice? (Carol Dehler, Utah State U.)
Apr 9th : Revisiting the mechanisms and thresholds of mass extinction. (Cori Myers, U. of New Mexico)
May 3rd : Drainage reorganization, sediment source reconstruction, & intraplate tectonics during Ancestral Rocky Mountain deformation. (Tyson Smith, USGS)
Jun 27th : Using 3D morphometrics to track rapid morphological changes in Late Triassic bivalves from New Zealand. (Annaka Clement, DMNS)
Aug 1st : Origins of icehouse vegetation in southern South America. (Gabi Rossetto Harris, DMNS)
Sep 26th : The single worst day in Earth's history - the squamate perspective. (Holger Petermann, DMNS)
Oct 24th : Brain evolution and the origin of birds. (Amy Balanoff, Johns Hopkins)
Nov 14th: Did the Deccan Traps volcanic province cause the end-Cretaceous mass extinction? (Blair Schoene, Princeton)
Dec 5th: The wandering Falklands: A plate tectonic odyssey. (Eric Roberts, Mines)